We Played Ninja Gaiden 4 - Kinda Funny Games Daily

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Summary: Kinda Funny Games Daily – "We Played Ninja Gaiden 4" | August 8, 2025

Kinda Funny Games Daily is the world’s most popular daily video game news podcast, hosted by Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Tim Gettys, and Blessing Adeoye Jr. In this episode titled "We Played Ninja Gaiden 4," released on August 8, 2025, the hosts delve into the latest happenings in the gaming industry, covering platforms like PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and more.

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1. Ninja Gaiden 4 Preview Roundup

The episode kicks off with an in-depth discussion about the highly anticipated Ninja Gaiden 4. Tim Gettys shares his extensive experience with the preview build, highlighting improvements in combat mechanics and overall gameplay. He references a feature by Mitchell Saltzman at IGN, who praises the game as “the pinnacle of the action genre” (00:48). Tim expresses his enthusiasm:

“This is exactly what I've always wanted a modern Ninja Gaiden game to be.” (07:00)

Blessing Adeoye Jr. adds his perspective, mentioning his limited playtime due to not having an Xbox at his desk but acknowledges the game’s fidelity to the Ninja Gaiden legacy:

“I played quite a bit of that because I played it on stream and picking up Ninja Gaiden 4 felt like I was picking up right where I left off in a good way.” (09:54)

Both hosts compare Ninja Gaiden 4 to other action titles like Devil May Cry, discussing its unique features and potential impact on the genre. Tim rates the game a 7 out of 10, recommending it for fans despite some reservations:

“It's a step up from three, and we're back, baby.” (05:01)

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2. Sony's Shift Away from Hardware-Centric Business

The second major story covers a strategic shift announced by Sony's Senior Vice President Sadahiko Hayakawa. In a Q&A session with investors, Hayakawa stated that PlayStation is transitioning from a hardware-focused approach to a platform-centric model that emphasizes community engagement and expanding their gaming ecosystem:

“We're moving away from a hardware-centric business model to a platform business that expands the community and increases engagement.” (30:31)

Tim and Blessing discuss the implications of this move, speculating that Sony aims to maximize revenue by broadening game availability across multiple platforms, including potential releases on PC and other consoles.

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3. Nintendo Announces Mario Claymation Show

Nintendo unveiled a new Claymation Mario series set to premiere on YouTube, targeting the children's market. This initiative is part of the new My Mario product line, which includes toys, picture books, and interactive elements:

“This series will feature kid-friendly animated episodes just one minute in length.” (44:43)

Hosts praise the creative approach but express concerns over the high price point of the wooden amiibo-compatible blocks:

“You'll need to green shell out around $135 for the set, which is insane.” (45:53)

Despite the cost, Tim commends Nintendo's effort to engage younger audiences:

“I love that there is a focus to expand the Nintendo world to all, going younger.” (47:02)

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4. Bithell Games Announces Major Layoffs

Bithell Games, known for titles like Thomas Was Alone, Tron Catalyst, and John Wick Hex, announced significant layoffs, severing 11 jobs—which constitutes the majority of their full-time staff. Studio boss Mike Bithell cited the inability to secure new larger-scale projects as the primary reason:

“It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams.” (49:07)

Hosts express their disappointment, acknowledging the talented team and the studio’s history of innovative game development.

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5. Demiurge Studios Also Faces Layoffs

In a similar vein, Demiurge Studios, which has contributed to games like Mass Effect, Marvel Snap, and Team Fight Tactics, is reportedly laying off six developers across various departments including Quality Assurance, Production, and UX/UI Design:

“I got the news today that my position at Demiurge has been eliminated.” (52:48)

Tim and Blessing lament the ongoing trend of layoffs in the gaming industry, emphasizing the importance of supporting indie developers amidst these challenges.

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6. Fortnite Introduces Pet-like Companions

Epic Games has leaked designs for new pet-like cosmetic companions in Fortnite Battle Royale, featuring a variety of dogs and a skateboarding turtle. The leaked images showcase initial concepts like a golden retriever, a pair of pugs, a robot dog inspired by the game's Cuddle Team Leader, and an aquatic reptile on a skateboard:

“These games are playing a role in expanding the community and increasing engagement.” (54:20) (Paraphrased)

Hosts discuss the appeal of having cute companions in games, drawing parallels to similar features in titles like Jet Force Gemini and characters like Clank from Ratchet & Clank.

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7. Additional Industry News and Community Super Chats

Throughout the episode, Tim and Blessing address various community super chats, listener interactions, and minor news items. Topics include:

• PlayStation 3 Online Store Maintenance: Concerns over potential indefinite shutdown (60:52).
• Corey Cudney's Milestone: Celebrating 2 billion views for Kind of Funny gifts (62:30).
• Discussion on "Little Guys" in Games: Exploring the role of companion characters in video games like Limbo and God of War (57:30).

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• “This is exactly what I've always wanted a modern Ninja Gaiden game to be.” – Tim Gettys (07:00)
• “I played quite a bit of that because I played it on stream and picking up Ninja Gaiden 4 felt like I was picking up right where I left off in a good way.” – Blessing Adeoye Jr. (09:54)
• “We're moving away from a hardware-centric business model to a platform business that expands the community and increases engagement.” – Sadahiko Hayakawa, Sony SVP (30:31)
• “This series will feature kid-friendly animated episodes just one minute in length.” – Nintendo Announcement (44:43)
• “It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams.” – Mike Bithell, Bithell Games (49:07)
• “I got the news today that my position at Demiurge has been eliminated.” – Demiurge Studios Employee (52:48)

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Conclusion

In this engaging episode, Tim Gettys and Blessing Adeoye Jr. provide their insights on pivotal gaming news, from the promising developments in Ninja Gaiden 4 to strategic shifts by industry giants like Sony and Nintendo. They also address the unfortunate layoffs affecting talented studios and discuss the evolving features in popular games like Fortnite. The hosts emphasize the importance of community support and advocate for backing indie developers during challenging times. As always, their dynamic conversation offers both entertainment and valuable perspectives for gaming enthusiasts.

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Links:

• Transcript Reference: Full Transcript
• Episode Release Date: August 8, 2025

Note: Timestamps refer to the respective moments in the provided transcript.

Transcript

[Tim Gettys]

Today's stories include Ninja Gaiden 4 preview, Sony says they're moving away from being a hardware centric business. And Nintendo announces a Mario Claymotion show.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Claymation.

[Tim Gettys]

Claymation show. Cool. We'll have all this more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. What's up? And welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Friday, August 8, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Poppy of all trades, blessing Adioia Jr. Good day, Tim. I, for some reason got in my own head there before I said poppy of all trades. And I was like, we're not doing master. And I was like, am I about to say the player of all the trades? I was like, no, that's not it. That's not it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Listen, I'll take any.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I got the haze going on. I don't know why is it the. I didn't do it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Was the update on.

[Tim Gettys]

I was distracted by the foot.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, the foot.

[Tim Gettys]

Much better. I been taking very good care of it, icing the hell out of it. And every day has been getting better than the last. However, I can walk now totally fine. There is like a throb that's just happening that I'm not enjoying. And it's happening right now.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Thrs are never enjoyable.

[Tim Gettys]

Never enjoyable, say.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But throbs, a lot of the time are not enjoyable. When you're throbbing in the bl. You don't want to be throbbing. That's a, that, that's a problem.

[Tim Gettys]

That is a problem. No, I, I'm on my, my way to mending. I. I think I'm going to be okay by the time you see me again next week. So how are you doing on Friday?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I'm doing good. New Music Friday? Yeah, man, I love New Music Friday.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I love.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like, it's been a routine for me lately where now I wake up, it's either Thursday night. If I'm. If I'm really looking forward to something, it's Thursday night. Otherwise it's like in the morning Friday where I'm like, oh, let me go to Spotify. Let me go to Release Radar. I sound like I'm sponsored. I promise. But let me go to the release or not Release Radar. Is it Release Radar? I think it's. There's like a release playlist on Spotify that I go to. That's like, oh, here's all the music from your. The artist that we know you like because it's algorithmic. And so I go there and I'm like, ah, this person released a new song. Oh, man. Skepta and Joyner Lucas are still going at it. All right, cool. Why not? Yeah. And so last night, Jid dropped a project. Very big Jid fan. And let me tell you, he never. He never disappoints.

[Tim Gettys]

You put me onto him a couple years ago with the Forever Story, and I loved it so much. So I'm excited to give this one a shot. What's it called? It's not God Loves Ugly.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No, God. God does like Ugly.

[Tim Gettys]

God does like Ugly.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's good. Do you have a listen to Atmosphere?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No, but I was listening to a podcast that was talking about this album, and they brought up Atmosphere. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because he had God Loves Ugly, which is a great album. They had.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What's. What's the deal with Atmosphere?

[Tim Gettys]

Atmosphere? I mean, I'm surprised you don't know.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But also, I'm not. It is. It's Rhyme Sayers. They're like, you know, backpack rap.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like, miracle spiritual individuals.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, but, like, they were the ones. They were the first ones making that joke.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

You get what I'm saying? Like, they. They were aware of what they were doing. They're great. They're fantastic. But are they kind of like.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like Cunning Linguists? Yeah, in that category, absolutely. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And they. They. They. Actually, funnily enough, I'm seeing Cunning Linguist and them, of course, together at a show in November.

[Barrett Courtney]

Didn't Atmosphere have a song on a Tony Haw? I'm trying to think of why. I know Atmosphere.

[Tim Gettys]

I. I'm not sure. I mean, Atmosphere is like Rhyme Sayers. Are y' all familiar with that?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like, the label, the word rhymes? Oh, it's the label. Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Rhymesayers is the label. They had, like, a ton of just different artists on it that like. Like Atmosphere. What? Slug is the rapper. Okay. But we're getting way too into this everywhere.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You know the song Amoeba from Tony Hawk? Amoeba? I used to think he was saying Tony.

[Tim Gettys]

Most people do.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's still. I can't get out of my head now.

[Tim Gettys]

I saw the Adolescents. I saw them perform that song live a couple weeks ago.

[Barrett Courtney]

Very jealous.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I'm so jealous.

[Tim Gettys]

Crazy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

How do you know you weren't at the battlefield? Lupe fiasco keeps popping up at different gaming events, and I'm at none of them. Yeah, it breaks my heart. Yeah. I want to run into Lupe Fiasco.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Real quick. I know we're not even into the news stories yet. I just need to say we're halfway through season two of Twisted Metal.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No way.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah. Because, well, it's dropping. I mean, last time they dropped it all at once.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

This time at least they're doing like. There was three episodes to start last night. Two more came out. We have five episodes left.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

What a fucking treat. The show is really. Oh my God, man, it's so awesome. It's like I. I am having a absolute ball with this show. It's funny, it's entertaining, the characters are great, the cast is insane. Like, the people that show up, you're just like, why? How are you here? But like, do you remember you watch she Hulk, right?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. Oh, man, I feel like I was the only one of the few people that love she Hulk. Yes. I remember Madison. Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

She's like one of the leads this season. She's Raven and she's amazing. And Anthony Mackie is a funny guy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

He is.

[Tim Gettys]

Let him do funny things.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I see that Anthony Mackey as a comedic human being. Underrated.

[Tim Gettys]

He's got it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

He's got it.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's what I'm going say about Twist Metal. The most underrated show video game adaptation so far. It's a 7 out of 10. But it's a recommendable, enjoyable 7 out of 10. And I stand by it that that game awards commercial was the worst thing that could have possibly happened to it because like, the show sometimes dives into that tone, but often it's not that and it's. It's pretty damn cool. You should check it out on Peacock. The the. Remember, this is kind of Funny Games daily. Each and every weekday we run you through the video game news that you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube or or Spotify or Apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free and a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be part of the show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats. As we go, a little housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. After this episode of Games Daily, you're going to get me and Blessing and Barrett doing our Donkey Kong bonanza spoiler cast. No holds barred.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No holds barred.

[Tim Gettys]

Everything can be talked about.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We can talk about all. Talk about it all. You thought God of War Ragnarok was filled with story twists and turns. Just you wait.

[Tim Gettys]

Bonanza after Gamescast is the big finale of Nick's Nick Scarpino's game showdown and then the stream after that will be some more Battlefield 6. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is coming to you from Roger and Mike forgot to do his yesterday so he's doing doing one right now. So two Gregory today. Fun. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Kind of Funny and Review, but we'll tell you all about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Rope reports. Time for some news. We have seven stories today.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Baker's Dozen.

[Tim Gettys]

Story Number one Ninja Gaiden Preview Roundup People have played Ninja Gaiden four people have. I'm one of those people. Bless. Are you one of those people?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I booted up Ninja Gaiden 4.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I didn't play much of it, not for reasons of quality. I can get into those reasons. It's mainly that I don't have an Xbox at my desk and maybe that's it. I never thought it would be a problem. Yeah, because Xbox games usually on PC, I can just play the Xbox game on my laptop. But yeah, preview sometimes, preview sometimes get a little hairy. But I did play it a little bit.

[Tim Gettys]

I played it a lot of it. So we'll talk about that. But I want to let you know other people's thoughts, like Mitchell Saltzman at IGN who said I made a whole feature on why I think Ninja Gaiden's the pinnacle of the action genre. So I won't spend too much time on that here. But the point of that is to say that my expectations coming into Gaiden 4 were massive. And yet somehow based on the four chapters of this preview build, it's living up to them. This is exactly what I've always wanted a modern Ninja Gaiden game to be. It's the small touches and improvements that really made me fall in love with Ninja Gaiden's. For Ninja Gaiden 4's combat, the way the guillotine throws now home in on enemies and can be used to knock airborne foes out of the sky. The way you're now more encouraged to use the environment to your advantage thanks to powered up flying swallows when you use them out of wall runs. How you can now use quick charge ultimate techniques right after land from an Azuna drop or flying swallow, or the way you can use your grapple to zip up to flying drone, leap off them, land two strikes on a flying enemy, then literally yank them out of the Air and pile drive them into the ground. This is exactly the kind of substantial but ultimately iterative upgrade to the classic style of ninja guidance combat that I had hoped Gaiden 3 would. Benlin @ PC Gamer says now that I've played it, I'm azuna dropping my expectations back to earth. Xbox offered up a demo of Ninja Gaiden 4 that covers its first few stages, so I spent a few hours playing on both normal and hard. To get a feel for Platinum games with Team Ninja's backing has taken a series that embarrassed itself into a decade long coma in 2012 that is very aggressive but not entirely inaccurate. My gut feeling based on those couple hours is that this will be a fun action game and nothing close to the disaster that was Ninja Gaiden 3.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

God damn.

[Tim Gettys]

But I was surprised how much it made me want to go back to playing Ninja Gaiden 2 Black. The core combat here is frenetic, but I think it might lean too far towards the stylish qualities of Platinum. Despite what the developers have said about their partnership. I hope the full game brings me around, but I'm not head over heels in love like I thought I would be.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What the fuck happened when Ninja got in three?

[Tim Gettys]

It just didn't hit. It was.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Was it like abysmal?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. Relative to the other ones because we're talking about like some of the best games of the generation. And then when Guiding 3 came out that was like a next gen title too. So like there was like a lot of interest in it and it just didn't. Didn't have the stuff. Like I don't think it was as much of a disaster as like Devil May Cry 2 was compared to the quality of like 1 and 3.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But it definitely, it had major, major issues. Then they're putting all these ninja getting games end up getting like a Black or Sigma or like other kind of Razor's Edge like upgrade that fixes a lot of problems. But even then the 3 upgrade still is not looked back with adoration.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Gotcha.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, bless. Tell me a little bit about your experience.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, I don't. Sad thing is, yeah, I don't have much of an impression. It was very much me booting it up at home and starting it and being like all right so far this is Ninja Gaiden. Like this is what I know Ninja Garden to be. We got yeah. One of the Blacks or Sigmas earlier this year. I forget which one it was but two Black. Two Black. There we go. And played quite a bit of that because I Played it on stream and picking up Ninja Gaien 4 felt like I was picking up right where I left off in a good way. I was like, oh man, this doesn't. For me, it didn't immediately feel like a Platinum game. For me, it immediately felt like a Ninja Gaiden game. And then as they start teaching the mechanics, there was a flash and flare there that I really dug. I think one of the big things I noticed early on is I really liked and enjoyed the feel of the combat and the flow of the gameplay. And it felt like a video game ass video game. It didn't have, like, I think the thing that brought me down to earth with it. And this isn't the biggest factor, but it was one that I definitely noticed was between Team Ninja and Platinum Games, I don't know if I look at either of them as being like the kings of fidelity. And so I look at this game playing on my Xbox Series X at home and. And I'm like, oh man, this doesn't look as like, good, like visually, like, it doesn't look as sharp, doesn't look as clean as I would have expected it to for a current gen. Like, I guess Xbox published title. That said, it doesn't look terrible, it doesn't look bad. Right. I think it still has like the style and flair that you want out of a Ninja Gaiden, but that was one of the things that I peeped early on. Aside from that, like, I would go home and play more of this game. Like this felt for me. It felt like it could be ramping up into being one of the special action games of the year. But for Tim, for you, as somebody who's played a lot more than I have in the preview cycle, what has been your takeaway?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, so I also played through all four chapters of the preview. You get to play as the new character or you can switch to Ryu. I did a little bit of both. I. I actually replayed some of the chapters as well. I really enjoyed my time with it, but at the end of the day, I'm not a 3D Ninja Gaiden guy. Like, I prefer Devil May Cry when it comes to this type of stylish action stuff. Even more Bayonetta. There's just slight little differences, but there's enough there. Like on the Platinum side of how frenetic the combat feels versus this, this is Ninja Gaiden. And between the two previews we read, I think personally, from my experience, the Mitchell Saltzman one is a bit more. I. I would look to that if you're a Ninja Gaiden fan as your guiding star.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Because Mitchell Saltzman is one of the, like, one of those dudes where it's like, I kind of take his word.

[Tim Gettys]

As gospel because he cares about fighting games and action games and. And the fighting combos and the way all that stuff feels. And so this hitting with him, I think, is the takeaway, because to me, it wasn't hitting me with me that much, but he's talking about Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 and stuff being, like, the pinnacles of the genre. I respect that personally. They aren't for me, but that's more of a. My style of gameplay, especially for me, coming off of Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, which I really, really, really loved. There's something about this that it's very similar, but I just prefer the 2D. I feel like once you move it into the 3D, something about the coolness of the environments just starts to feel like colored lights as opposed to, like, a crafted experience. And this is just me being nitpicky, but that's the experience I had with this, where I felt like I was going through the motions a little bit. But I'm also not good at these games, so him talking about doing all these, like, combos in. In great detail. I did some of them accidentally, or I did some of them on purpose, but it never felt like I really was like, all right, cool. I. This game's putting me to the test. It really just felt like I was having fun pushing buttons. That's what video games are sometimes. And I had a lot of fun pushing buttons, especially against the boss fights in this. Boss fights have never really been the highlight of the Ninja Gaiden games. I think that in comparison to a lot of more modern action games where the boss fights are the stars of the show, Ninja Guidance has always been a bit more about the combo of how many enemies you can kill quickly and, like, in succession. Um, but the boss fights we played in this, I thought were super fun. There's this big, like, samurai type of guy that just really allowed me to have a lot of fun with my moveset and get a little bit more familiar with the. The tech that I have. But then there's like, this big red woman with an umbrella that you kind of, like, have to multiphase, follow her through this, like, demonic version of Tokyo.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And she just keeps, like, bouncing through. And then you'll have, like, one phase of the boss fight. You follow her. You fight her somewhere else. I thought that was a Lot of fun. You're also dodging her attacks that are very old school video game style of like, she shoots out a bunch of red orbs, like fire orbs, and then the orbs start spinning and you need to, like, dodge them on the battlefield before you go attack her. Fun stuff. It feels very like, okay, cool. We've been here before. But it does have this new coat of paint of the Ryu versus new character situations where getting a lot of this, like, super futuristic Neo Tokyo, the dragon is dead. There's a dead body like it. There's a lot of cool stuff here.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So cool. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But so far, for me, it's kind of like if you see the trailer and you're like, this looks awesome, I think you're going to really like this game.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But if you see the trailer, you're like, I kind of want more than what they're showing me. I'm not sure how much more there is.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. And I. And I'm. I think I'm definitely in that first camp where again, as I'm starting this game, I'm like, oh, man, I feel like this is going to ramp up to something special for me. I could see this being one of those ones that I fall into. But I also think, yeah, it kind of depends on the kind of player you are. Which I'm. Which fascinates me about you, because I'm curious on what works for you in Devil May Cry versus what doesn't work for you in Ninja Gaiden as far as, like, why you love Devil May Cry so much, but why Ninja Gaia is not on that level. Because for me, when I look at both of them, when I play both of them, they have the similar thing of, like, you could say they're going through the motions a little bit. Like, when I'm playing Devil May Cry, I'm very much just fucking slicing and shooting through these guys. Right. In the same way that I am during this Ninja Gaiden 4 demo so far, in fact, so much so that, like, the heavy or like the. When you press Y, if you charge it, they will give you, like an animation through these enemies. Right. You can do that back to back where you're just fucking slicing through enemies. It feels like automatic kills. Like, it feels that. That, you know, through the motions. But also, I think the special thing about these games is that there is this feeling of combat expression to where you go into these fights and you can kind of like freestyle and like, it's more about making the. Getting the combos and it's more about how well you get through the fights as opposed to like fucking like can you even get through the fight in the first place kind of thing. So I. I feel like I see the similarity in the two. Is there something that in Dove May Cry that feels a bit more. No. This is why there's.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a ton of similarity. But I think, you know, to. To put it into context like you and I can understand it's like there's a lot of similarities between a Yoshi game and a Mario game, but there are key differences. And just like even added Sonic to that. And any 2D platformer where it's like you jump as Mario, you jump as Sonic, you're doing the same thing. It just feels different. And I feel like Dante and Ryu have a similar type of thing on top of that. Ninja Gaiden, I would say as a base game, is way more challenging and. And way more punishing. Whereas Devil May Cry, I think is like leans in for you to do things that look cool. Ninja Gaiden leans into. If you pull things off, you're going to up these people's lives.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? And there's just something about Devil McCry that's always been more my type of thing. Having said that, I love these games and more than anything, I'm happy this game exists. I am happy that 2 was re released and well received. I'm happy that Ragebound came out and people love it. And now we have Ninja Gaiden 4, a brand new one that does, no matter what, seem like it's a step up from three. And this is wild that there hasn't been a brand new Ninja Gaiden in over a decade. Like unacceptable.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And now we're back, baby. And in a world full of souls games and souls likes, I think that it's awesome that this genre is getting more love and that hopefully people that rock with this, that this delivers what they're looking for, even just enough, even if it does, if it delivers as much as Ragebound did for me as a 2D platform action guy, I think we're going to be in a really good spot to get more of these type of games. If anything, just to dilute the amount of a game pops up and we know exactly what it's going to be.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. It makes me wonder because we're so in the era of souls likes and difficult ass action games, which, I mean, I'm eating right. Andy Cortez is eaten. There's so many people that Fucking love these games. But also I think in very recent years there's a bit of a fatigue that I'm feeling right between, you know, like I'm. I just started the Liza P DLC overture and I'm like, man, this is great. But then I look over the horizon and I'm like, fuck Wu Shang. Fallen feathers just came out and I just got done playing Night Rain. In fact, I'm not even done playing Night Rain. I got two bosses left that I still need to go back to. And I'm sure if I think about it enough, there's probably another Souls like coming up that like, that I probably will want to get to. Right. Like these games come out so often and it feels like they've taken up so much of the space of like, you know, mainstream action titles in general. I wonder if we're gonna see a snap back to fast paced actiony Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, like slashing enemies up kind of games. Because I, I think there's a big space for that. I wonder if there's just like an it factor that people are waiting on. I wonder if there's like a special sauce that people are waiting to be put on it.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. I, I don't expect it to, to ever like reach dominance like it did. It had its time and they had a bunch of classic titles that still hold up to this day because they're gameplay forward.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I feel that's true with a lot of these Souls games as well. That in the future like we're going to be able to look at all of these. And the thing about the Souls games is sure there's a shit ton of them. Most of them are good. Like. Yeah, that's the biggest thing is like until we get to the point that we're starting to release bad ones and especially when the big dogs release the bad ones, like until they have their ninja, until from software has their Ninja Gaiden 3 or their devil May Cry.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

To don't speak that into existence.

[Tim Gettys]

I know but like I don't expect that anytime soon if ever necessarily. But it could happen. But yeah, I do think that it's interesting that they're. This year we got. We went from having no ninja guiding games to three. One of them was a re release but still like that's in one year. And we're also getting Shinobi Art of Vengeance. Like ninja fans are eating. Oh yeah, I'm. I'm stoked about that. We got some super chats here. Arjun Roy Says my fave Ninja guidance, the Arcade Cabinet for the first one from the 80s. And the novelization, which was actually really good. Did anyone read it? I did not, but I love that. I used to be obsessed with, like, novelizations of video. Like, any video games back in the day. Like, Kevin's mom would, like, take us to garage sales, and we were just like, look at. There's always like, weird ass, like, Luigi, choose your own adventure books.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

How big were these novelizations? Were they like a little, like a little magazine kind of thing? Or were they.

[Tim Gettys]

No, they were actual books. They were like goosebump books. You know what I mean? Like, it was kids stuff, but that's neat. Pretty cool, man.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

If. If I can go back in time and be a writer who, like, writes novelizations for old school video games, fuck, I might do that today, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a guy, I want to say his name's David Foster or Alan Foster, one of the two who wrote novelizations of all the Resident Evil books. And they fucking were fire.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's so fun.

[Tim Gettys]

And, like, I remember, like, being obsessed with them. And I still have. It's one of the rare books my brother actually read all the way through.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The novelization of the first game. But they take the gameplay seriously, so they explain the puzzles.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, damn.

[Tim Gettys]

I love that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Getting the.

[Tim Gettys]

The. The green triangle key and bringing it to this do.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like, dude, I. With that.

[Tim Gettys]

It's great. All right. We got a lot of super. Just. I want to get through all them before we get to story number two here. Demon hacker says, how about everything Poppy Blessing. No, no Poppy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Of all trades, I think, is it.

[Tim Gettys]

Alex FR has been out all week at Black Hat and have so much. Kind of funny to catch up on. Happy to be back and love you guys. I don't know what Black Hat is, but I hope you had a great time and welcome back. This is a great week of content. Oh, yeah. Machine XP says when we're all Xboxes, we all win.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We all win. That's my thing. Yeah, man. I. It's a. I think it's just whatever. It's. However they do their preview thing, because I really was. I went to my PC as soon as we got, like, the preview access, and I tried to find it on my Xbox app because I was like, let's go. The future Xbox. We did it. And I was like, all right, cool. The preview build is I got to go home and download all my Xbox Series X. And then I just didn't have time and I didn't want to Bring my Xbox series X to work because that's a big thing. It is a big, heavy thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Many face Steph says. I just have to say I totally agree with Tim. Twisted Metal Season two rules. Hell yeah. And then Raymond K. Hustle super chats in about our fantastic foreign review that I recommend everybody watch same. I was appalled to hear you guys make fun of the writers of Silver Surfer. For Johnny asking Ben how he. When minutes earlier y' all were theorizing on how flaccid Reed is. How are these different? Lol. I hope you're being sarcastic, because you need to listen to the context in which Johnny was asking Ben how he fucks, because I don't even want to repeat it. But there are elements involved that are so incredibly offensive I had to explain it to you during that.

[Barrett Courtney]

There's also a difference between, like, script writing and like, for Chuckle Fucks on a podcast.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, but. And also just say he's like, whatever.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, every now and then I hear like. Because I don't listen to in review as consistently. Mainly because I'm like, do I? I just don't have that. It's the part of I hang out with you all. All the time. And then also it's like, I don't know. I don't care.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I get it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But then I'll. I'll hear things bleed over of things that y' all talked about during any review and I just get so many questions. Oh yeah, who brought that up? And I know the answer is Nick.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, again, I'll explain during the commercial break. And everyone, you should watch the interview to find out. Dexter Schwalzer says, would you recommend picking Up Ninja Garden 2 Black before 4, or would that cause Burnout? Also, how was the soundtrack? Thanks, guys. Y' all are fucking killing it. Thank you so much. This is a weird one where I didn't end up beating Ninja Guy to Black when it came out earlier this year, but I played a fair amount of it. And after playing this, I think I kind of preferred my time playing to.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Really?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, like, those opening bits of two captured me more than this did this year. And I don't know that for what you will. Also, these games are pretty short, so I don't think you're going to get Burnout. Like, I do think it's the type of game that if you enjoy this gameplay, you can't get enough of it. Like, it's. It's going to be fun. You're just going to get better at it. So I would Say give. Give to black a shot, especially if you have game pass. So both of these are on game pass or will be on game pass? Yeah, the soundtrack was. Was cool. Not standout, but it was cool.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, Demon Hacker says, how would you want Animusha to be different from this? Oh, man, I'm so excited for Animusha. Animosia is an entirely different beast. Like, entirely.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

How do you describe the combat of Onimusha?

[Tim Gettys]

Well, first and foremost, Ony Musha is more of a classic Resident Evil game.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Which is like.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So it's not as combat.

[Tim Gettys]

No.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Heavy.

[Tim Gettys]

But as the games went on, they got a little bit more. Much more combat heavy. I mean, Animosia 3 was the first one to allow, like, actual analog control instead of the tank controls. Like, think about that body. Musha games use tank controls to move. So how crazy was the combat? Not very.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, but I imagine this new one is going to be somewhere in between the more souls, like, in terms of, like, how many enemies you're facing off against at once and like, what that style looks like. And the Ninja Gaiden type of. Of game where I don't think it's going to be like, super flashy, but I think it is going to be way more hack and slash. I don't think it's going to have the difficulty of souls there.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I need to bring up some Onimusha one gameplay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Because I'm learning real time. I think I just don't know what Onimusha gameplay looks like. I think I always had the thought of, like, oh, I know what Anonymous is. It's just an action game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No, but now I guess I just don't. I never really thought deeply about On a Musha. I need to learn the thing I.

[Tim Gettys]

Love most about Onyusha in terms of the combat is the, like, you slash the enemies, when you kill them, they turn into like, their souls fly out of them.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The orbs. And you have to suck them into your gauntlet.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, let me tell you.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

There are some games that you like.

[Tim Gettys]

It's really cool because it's like the sucking of the souls becomes kind of the balance of the gameplay of, like, you're attacking them and the souls disappear after a certain amount of time. So it's like you're trying to, in between attacking, get enough time to suck the souls.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I love that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I feel like I played a game that just had that mechanic. Maybe. I think maybe a Neo. I feel like some of them. I feel like some of them. Team Ninja games might appeal, man. Yeah. On a musha, huh? That's what this is, huh?

[Tim Gettys]

I love it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I with it.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it. Kuma Bobam. Says who? And kind of funny. Do you think could pull off the best Azuna Drop? I'm gonna go Kevin Coelho.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What's in Azuna Drop?

[Tim Gettys]

Think about it like a big ass. Like a jumping suplex.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh yeah. I could see Kevin doing that.

[Tim Gettys]

Deshawn says return to form is exactly what most hack and slash fans want in the souls obsessed world. So I'm very excited. You should be excited. I think you're gonna like it. Kebab says, I have both the novelization and the junior novelization for the Ratchet and Clank movie. Yes, I'm that sicko.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Y' all lucky I didn't know Anonymous back in the day because I would be an. I would be an automusha sicko. As I'm watching that gameplay that looks like some me, right?

[Tim Gettys]

It's not too late. I mean real talk, I wouldn't recommend it because like they're very dated games. But audio Musha one, you could beat it in one stream. Four hours. Okay, okay, I'll sit there with you.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Listen, I'm thinking about it also. Somebody does say Ninja Gaiden 2 does orb sucking, which is probably what I'm thinking of.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell yeah. Is this new gameplay?

[Barrett Courtney]

This was from I think a couple months ago.

[Tim Gettys]

I can't fucking wait for this is.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

From like the Xbox Underscore direct thing. Underscore Dev. Underscore Direct Underscore Xbox Underscore Ninja Gun.

[Tim Gettys]

Captain Mark says birthday tax for year 27. Thank you. Kind of funny for being a fixture of my life for the last decade. Happy birthday, Mark. You are the best. We're gonna get to story number two after a word from our sponsors. This episode's brought to you by our own show Kind of Funny in review. It is our movie review show and it is the best place to get all of our thoughts on all the latest in entertainment. Greg and how has it been this year?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's been awesome because I came back Alien vs.

[Tim Gettys]

Predator.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

In review. Superman in review. Fantastic Four Currently happening. In review. It's been a great time and I've been crazier than ever.

[Tim Gettys]

You really have. It's been banger after banger after banger of episodes of In Review. Doesn't mean the movies necessarily work. Oh, they often are. We're talking about some all time greats sometimes we're talking about some of the worst movies ever.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Made.

[Tim Gettys]

But no matter what, Greg is drinking his Cokes and having a good time and saying some of the craziest things you've said on Kind of Funny Content ever.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's right. If you're unfamiliar, of course, in review is us picking a movie series, watching them all, then ranking and reviewing them.

[Tim Gettys]

All while meticulously recapping the plot and.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Not screwing anything up.

[Tim Gettys]

But here's the thing. I know a lot of you are watching live, probably on kind of Funny Games Daily or Kind of Funny Games Cast. We cover video games, but we also cover movies and we have a great time doing it. Just best friends hanging out. So don't worry. We're getting back to Alien versus Predator, everybody, right after we get through some of the big summer movies. But Fantastic Four, Superman, Alien versus Predator, it's been a great time. The good times are just starting.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's right. So right now, like subscribe, share on your favorite podcast feed or YouTube.com kind of funny games and we'll see you at the movies.

[Tim Gettys]

That was good.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Thank you. I mean, we stole it.

[Tim Gettys]

It's, you know, I think Cisco and Eber's line.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, that's who she is. I didn't even put it together. I thought when you said this Kerry Washington. I was thinking that she was Mrs. What's her name? The invisible Woman or so.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no, no, that's Jessica Alba. Oh, you're right. That is Jessica Alba. Of course. Story number two, Sony senior VP says we're moving away from a hardware centric business. This comes from William d' Angelo at VG Charts. The Sony senior Vice president Sadahiko Hayakawa, in a Q and A session with investors stated, PlayStation's moving away from being a quote, hardware centric business to more of a platform that focuses on community and engaging increasing engagement in the gaming business. We're moving away from a hardware centric business model more to a platform business that expands the community and increases engagement. Sony, in its latest earnings report, announced it shipped 2.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles for the quarter ending June 30, 2025, for a lifetime shipment figure of 80.3 million units. We kind of talked about this yesterday.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, you know, it's the thing where I saw this picking up Steam.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

In the last 24 hours of people talking about it. I1 I do think it's interesting, an interesting thing of PlayStation, of all companies being like we're not going to or we're moving away from being hardware centric and being more focused in on community, increasing engagement I read that immediately. More so being about like the live service shit than like we're going to put our games everywhere, even though I think that's also probably part of it. Right. Like not everywhere, but I think them putting their games on PC, putting Helldivers on Xbox, putting LEGO Horizon on Switch, I think that shit's just going to continue. Right. I think it's all encompassing of, hey, like, even though they report the hardware sales here, even though we sold 80 million units of PlayStation 5, we want to maximize our revenue. So like what makes sense to maximize our revenue. That's. I think that's how I read this.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's very interesting because obviously there's a lot of different things happening at once and over the last couple years we've been building to different moments of what seemed impossible before now just being commonplace, of games showing up places you would have never expected. Gears of War coming to a PlayStation console. Like all these, like, what the fuck Aloy Showing up on a Nintendo Switch. Like there are things happening that just seem bizarre but now aren't so much. I, we, we have this, we also have the job listing from a month ago or whenever that was.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It was like a week ago.

[Tim Gettys]

God, time's flying. Also talking about, you know, getting, having some type of strategy and focus on getting PlayStation titles, on hiring for somebody.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Who to be the senior director of like multi platform business or something. Like something along those lines.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but with all that and even with the context of how this is being said, I don't think that this means that they're going to do what Xbox is still not 100% doing, but we're getting closer and closer by the day. I'd say we're like 95% there. But until we know that Gears of War E day is coming to PS5 day one, that to me is like, okay, that's the final thing of like, all right, every Xbox game is just going to be PlayStation Day 1. And I imagine that's the case, by the way. Yeah, but when you look at the PlayStation side, like I, I still don't think that this means we're getting the next God of War on Xbox. Like I still think that Sony's going to. Even if they're moving away from a hardware centric business, that doesn't mean moving away from hardware and it also doesn't mean moving away from what has made their hardware successful, which is exclusives. And I think that they're proving that they are willing to look at games on a case by case basis and See what makes sense. And games like Helldivers or any community based game. Yeah. I think that they should be in as many places as possible, as early as possible for the health and longevity of those.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Marvel talk on Fighting Souls is another one that I'm like, this should be multi platform.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Like, I hope that they come around. I'm putting that everywhere.

[Tim Gettys]

And do you think they will? Yeah, you do?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I mean, maybe not at launch, but I think, yeah, I think that it.

[Tim Gettys]

Needs to be at launch though. I think that's the problem with, with that. Right. Like you need that swell. You need the interest and you need to support from the beginning. It can't just be like, oh, here's a second wind of a new group of fighters to come in. It's like I feel like that game needs actual support and I'm worried.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I feel like, I forget, was that.

[Tim Gettys]

They should do that?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Was that announced just for PlayStation or did they announce it for PC as well? I can't, I can't remember off the top of my head, but assuming it's just PlayStation, like, no, it says PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. I honestly think, I think that's fine for launch. Right. Like, I don't want to do the double standard thing of PlayStation versus Xbox, but I think if we're looking at the reality of it, there are just a lot of PlayStations out there compared to the amount of Xboxes out there. So I don't think if you don't make it to Xbox at launch that it's going to kill the community or whatever. Right. Like, I think the Xbox thing is like an added bonus of all right now. Let's launch here so we can continue to move this game. Move. We can continue to get more community into this game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But like I still think even if you launch on Xbox, the percentage of Xbox players versus the rest of the players on Marvel Token Fighting Souls, I think wouldn't, I don't want to say it's a drop in the bucket, but it's not going to be like a. This is 40% of our player base or anything like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it is. I think that the reality that we're in right now, from my perspective is that the Xbox generation we're in right now is in such a. In between where they've spelled out where they're going in the future, where it is going to be a PC as much as it is a console. And I think that PlayStation's willingness to be on PC means that PlayStation games are going to be on Xbox next generation. By default. But I think we're still in this era where. Yeah, to your point, it's like putting these games out, like you're only going to be potentially selling to whatever it was, 29 million or something like that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You have like 80 million PlayStations out there. You have people. Like so many people are adopting PC as their main platform. I would even say it. Let's get a Switch 2 version out there, right. If I'm PlayStation, we're talking about like priority now. Xbox would theoretically be easier to port to than a Switch to. So I could see why you would go Xbox there. But like, I think you got to go to where the people are. And that's a sucky thing if you're an Xbox player. Right. Because it is like, well, we deserve games on our platform as well kind of thing. Right. But I think on the business side for PlayStation, I don't. I could see you looking at that priority and being like, okay, well we don't have to get Xbox at launch, but I think for Tolkon Fighting Souls, you should get Xbox and maybe even Switch two in there eventually.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean I. Within a year that I think that for that type of game it should be day one. I feel like you need to give that game as much chance at survival as possible. But when you look at the bigger first party titles, it's like, I just don't. I still don't see a future in which those are coming to other consoles anytime soon, if ever. PC notwithstanding. To me, the big question mark is when are they going to give up the ghost on delayed PC releases and when is it just going to be day and date PlayStation and PC for their core PlayStation Studios titles, not just the partner games or not. Things like Helldivers or.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You're talking about for God of War, Horizon, Last of Us, when are we going to get those? Day and day on PC, which I think will happen.

[Barrett Courtney]

Barrett, just another left turn of another wrinkle that I was thinking about this in terms of their moving away from hardware centric business. I do wonder how much of like the. Obviously it was an extreme circumstance of the transition from PS4 to PS5 because we're in the middle of a pandemic and there was also the chip shortage and like all that stuff. Right. But then also like releasing the PS5 Pro of them looking back at like how much of their audience kind of stayed behind for a long time. And with new console hardware releases now at this point, probably from here on out being more iterative, I do wonder if they possibly shift focus from like new consoles being like exclusive focus and more so being higher end things for like the hardcore of hardcores.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Barrett Courtney]

Just an idea.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Especially with like I do wonder like what the PS5 Pro did for them and maybe that maybe recontextualizing how they think about future hardware. As you know, I would imagine the PS5 Pro not going to be as powerful as a potential PlayStation 6, but the PS5 Pro is also expensive as shit. So I don't know. Yeah, just a thought I had.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I think those factors specifically the price is going to be such a big thing as we go into the PlayStation 6 generation. But I think for me my first immediate thought would be even just the branding of PlayStation 6 is enough to get so many people making that transition of wanting to buy it. I think that, I think that is a powerful thing and the price isn't.

[Tim Gettys]

Stopping people so far. Like look at the numbers that we're talking about here. Like I feel like, and I've been saying this about the PS5 Pro since they announced it, like these are iterative consoles and they're going to continue to just iterate and they're not looking at this as a separate skew, they're looking at it as this is a family of consoles. Exactly. And like that's the right way to look at it. And I think they're going to continue that. And I do think there will be a PlayStation 6.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. Oh for sure. I think for sure there's going to be a PlayStation 6 and I think the PlayStation 6 is going to do really well. Like the fact that PS5 is doing so well and you look at PS5 exclusives and what most of them are on PS4 like, like if you are somebody who is like I'm only going to make the jump to PS5 based off of the games that I can only play on PS5. It's been a slow, like it's been a slow journey to get to a place where it's like okay, cool, like it's hard for me even think of like the play actual PlayStation 5 exclusives off the top of the dome. Final messy 7 Rebirth 7 Rebirth was Returnal. I think Returnal was 1, was Ratchet and Clank, Spider Man 2. But then like when we talk beyond that, right. God of War, Ragnarok. That was on PS4 and that's like such a big factor when we're talking about these things. Horizon, Forbidden west. That was on PS4 as well.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but the DLC wasn't the DLC.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Wasn'T, but it's been like a slow thing. And when you're talking about third parties is that thing too. So I think already we're in a place where people are making that jump.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

When we get to the PS6, I think it's going to be a little bit more of an uphill battle, but I don't think it'll be uphill enough to where we don't see the same thing happening.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'm sorry to butt in again but I also think about what they're trying, what they see in terms of where the economy is at in like two, three years and trying to offset where people's wallets are in terms of actually being able to buy a new console and more so focusing on kind of, you know, software and stuff like that and getting their stuff on different consoles like y' all have been saying, different platforms. I just, I do wonder about that as well. Of like what they're thinking about in terms of.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Where the world will be at.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I think the centric word is the thing that like I, I think they're doing what we're all talking about here, right. Like hey, let's look at all the numbers and let's look at how. I think plus is such a big factor as far as what we're, what PlayStation is thinking about, right. As far as user base and how do we maximize the numbers there on top of like what we're talking about or what we've been talking about with live service stuff. I think they're going to continue to try that. I think they're also going to look, to look at those forever big ass games that bring in people the fortnights. The Call of Duty is those things. Right. Like I think that's where the user base starts to matter more than being hardware centric.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean hardware also means a lot of things. It doesn't just mean the console. And I do think that this generation we've seen PlayStation have, I mean debatably its biggest push into the hardware space when it comes to their, their Playlink system. Right. With the multiple styles of headphones and earphones and the fight pad that they're coming out with and the dual sense edge. I remember for years talking about how all PlayStation is never going to have an elite controller themselves. Like they just will let third parties do that. It's like, well now they do, you know, like I do think that they have focused on hardware in a very different way. Having the PS5 Pro, I mean even the PS4 Pro, like that wasn't that long ago. So I, I'm interested in what do you think is actually going to shake out.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

How do you think they view that? Like that hardware push, the one that you're talking about as far as all these accessories and all that stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Or successful, I think, and that's why PSVR2 in that. Oh, they must count it. And I don't know, I don't think that they look at that as successful, but maybe successful to the extent that they needed it to be at the time or whatever. Yeah, but because we don't see them normally coming out and be like, oh fuck, that didn't work. If it didn't work, I think they would have said more than they have. I think that it just, it didn't exceed expectations. But I don't think that it is like anything really to write home about. Right.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, I'm, I'm so fascinated on how they look at it overall. Because overall I think it's like a cool, brand new thing to be like, you know, we have all these things that look like PlayStation 5 that are functional with PlayStation 5, but I wonder when you go down the list, I think there are some that have been successful and some that like PSVR too. Obviously not successful. PlayStation Portal, I'd say, yeah, major success. Yeah, that's successful. I wonder if those, the, the Pulse Explorers are selling. I wonder if like those Pulse headsets are doing what they want those Pulse headsets to do.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean, I will say anecdotally, I know a lot of people that have them.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Like when I, when I see people using gaming headsets, like if they have a PlayStation, I'd say that there is a 25% chance it's one of the ones we just talked about because it's ease of use and it's ease of access even. Right. Like for people that don't want to go to wire cutter and look up what's the best gaming headset, blah, blah, blah. It's just like, oh, I have a PlayStation, I need a headset, I'm gonna.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Buy it, I'm gonna buy the PlayStation headset.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, and they're good too, right? It's like if you were to Google, like they're highly recommended, so they're not the best of all time, but they're also not $600.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. Let me tell you, I borrowed Michael Hyams PlayStation Explorers and I've been talking about forever about having the issue with my PlayStation ones where they like disconnect randomly and like all this shit, right? And I like my pairs were sent by PlayStation at launch or whatever. And Haims, I assume like he got a bit after that first wave or whatever. His worked so perfectly. And I'm like, man, I. It's a lesson learned because with all my PlayStation headset stuff they've all had problems. Like they've all had either like disconnection issues or my pulses like the over the ear ones would get like weird sounds sometimes. Like, like the bass would be weird. And whatever's going on with these first wave, like PlayStation head like headset hardware, we gotta figure it out. That first wave is me up, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Anyway, anyway.

[Tim Gettys]

George Corona III says if the next Xbox will have Steam, why would Sony spend money on an Xbox specific port? At that point Microsoft doesn't get a cut from Steam. Valve does. I mean that's kind of the point of what I was saying. Yes, Xbox is in a weird place right now where people can't. It, it can't work the way that they're telling us is going to work quite yet. It almost can, but we're not there. We're gonna be there very soon.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, I wanted to loop around because that like not that far from now, hopefully none of this is going to matter.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh man, are they going to port to Xbox? Guess what? Xbox is a PC. So you're going to be able to play these games on Xbox anyway.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. We're here, we're here, we're here, we're.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

In the video games are everywhere.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank God everything's an Xbox story. Number three. Nintendo announces Mario Claymation show as part of new kit themed My Mario product line Push. This comes from Tom Phillips at ign. Nintendo's announced a new Claymation Mario show that's set to premiere on YouTube. The series, which will feature kid friendly animated episodes just one minute in length, will launch alongside a major new push by Nintendo for the kids product market with a range of toys, picture books and more released under a new My Mario banner. Notably, this range includes a set of wooden blocks that you can use as amiibo figurines. Other products on the way include a set of plastic tableware, a board book, a backpack, a plushie Mario rattles, and items of baby and toddler clothing, including T shirts and a Mario hoodie that looks dope as hell. My Mario has interactive elements too, including a My Mario app for smartphones and Switch consoles where you can play with Mario's face like a 2D version of Mario 64 Start Menu. The hello Mario app will launch for iPhone and Android on August 26th in Japan with the rest of it getting there. August 28th, Nintendo's plans for international, but not until 2026. Nintendo said these figures can be used as their appropriate Amiibo incompatible games. Adding to their value, though, you'll need to. You need. You need to green shell out around $135 for the set and also, at least until next year, be in position to buy it from Japan. That is an insane amount of money.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

For wooden blocks that are also Amiibo.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

But I get it. Is it that. Oh, they're going to be collectors items, but that's not what these should be. These should be accessible to the kids. Yeah, the baby. The children.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Because. Yeah. I talk about all the time of my nephews who I bought a Switch for, and like, they're into video games now and all this stuff and makes me happy. My other sister, she has a toddler and she's about to have her second child, and I'm like, how do I get these two kids? Like, how do I get these two kids into Mario?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

How do I infect them with them with the Nintendo love early in life? And this might be the avenue.

[Tim Gettys]

Got to indoctrinate them, but also early.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Get them early. You know what I mean? But also, like, is all this shit going to be expensive? Because I don't, I don't. I don't have the money.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I'm sure. But also these prices are in Japan. Japan prices are different.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's fair.

[Tim Gettys]

That's fair for where we're at. So we'll see what it ends up being for us. I don't expect it to be cheap. Few things are when it comes to anytime something's designed for a certain group of people, you're going to get that tax. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The women get the pink tax on all their, like, deodorant and all that shit. It's the same goddamn deodorant. But just because it's for them, it's more.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Same shit happens here for these kids. I love this.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I love, I love that there is a focus to expand the Nintendo world to. To all. Going younger, I think is a great call for them. They've obviously found a lot of success with that already. But me and you, how many hours did you spend fucking with Mario's face in Mario 64 when you were little?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, too many.

[Tim Gettys]

Too many. Right. It just was endless fun and the sheer learning to interact with something I think has so much value to it. So like, I don't know if you saw the videos of this thing, it looks great. It looks like. It looks like a slightly more gamified version of that Mario 64 start screen. And I think that's going to be very, very cool for kids too when they're appropriately aged, play with that and it, I think it would have a bit more value than some of the other things they could be watching or playing. But yeah, I like this. I'm excited for it. For, for the kids out there.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Thank God DK Bonanza, they had their paint mode or whatever they call it in like a separate kind of menu thing because if they automatically put you in that before you got to the game itself, no one would play. Yeah, it's like, oh well, I'll. I'm gonna take twice as much time to beat DK Bonanza now.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep. Story number four. Bithell Games is making the majority of its full time staff redundant. This comes from Jordan Midler at vgc. Bethel Games has announced it's making the majority of its full time staff redundant after failing to secure a quote, new larger scale project. In a statement posted to social media, studio boss Mike Bithell wrote sad news today. Bethel Games, having been unable to secure a new larger scale project, is reducing in size. This means that 11 jobs are being made redundant. This can. This constitutes the majority of our full time staff. It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams seeking funding partners in 20, 24 and 5. We've fortunately been able to communicate these challenges ahead of time and work with affected staff to ease departures as much as possible via severance packages. B Games, best known for Thomas was Alone, Tron, Catalyst and John Wick Hex. The statement continues. It's important to state this was an incredible team of exceptionally talented people. If you're a developer reading this and you're hiring anyone among those affected would be a great addition to your studio. Please reach out if we can help to put you in touch. What a fucking bummer.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I know, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

Damn.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, super bums me out again if you're listening. Right. Like that last statement I think is one that I want to echo again. Yeah, like reach out to the people that are losing their jobs here because there are so many talented people in the industry and the industry is in a very tough place right now and Bithell Games, right. You know, Thomas is alone. Tron Catalyst, John Wick Hex was John Wick Hex the one. No, Tron Catalyst is the one that they just released most recently. Yeah. Like it's a studio that we know for doing something unique. A studio that we know for doing something that is bespoke in specific and quality. And quality.

[Tim Gettys]

Like these are good games and they're, they're, they're different. They're able to, to release them at a great clip so it's not waiting 10 years between releases like this. This sucks, man. That like a team that talented can't get funding.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's such an indictment on where we're at with how successful the money needs to be, how large the number has to be for the money for companies to think it's worth that. We were just going back to yesterday talking about Xbox and how their contraband being canceled. Right. And like Xbox pulling out of those partnerships and you know, we'll start to see the last couple of years having so much investment in games to show up on Game Pass. Like that's going to be pulled back. We're already seeing it get pulled back. There's exceptions to that. But overall it's like the funding is just not there in a way that honestly felt like last ditch effort. Places to find funding. The last couple years, anytime we talk to any indie devs that we know, or even just devs that we know, getting projects greenlit and funded. Yeah, used to be pretty simple. And even then that's all relative. It was very fucking hard. But there was a pipeline to make it happen here. It's like, man, if the people that really deeply understand this pipeline can't get it figured out.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yes. Yesterday we did a interview with Abu, the head of, or the founder and CEO of of Surgeon Studio. And I was talking about Dead Take. And Dead Take is one of my favorite horror games of the year. And that game wouldn't have come out if they didn't partner up with Pocket Pair most likely. Right. Like I remember right after Tales of Kinsera, there are news stories about like certain studios and like downsizing and all this shit, right. And one of the things that they had mentioned is like, yeah, we're looking for a partnership and in the current atmosphere, the current place that we're at in the, in the industry, like it might be more likely than not that they wouldn't have found a partner, that they wouldn't have found, you know, somebody to help get that game to the finish line. And thank goodness they did because they made such an excellent game. Right now we're at a place where so many excellent games just aren't making it to the finish line. Yeah, so many excellent games aren't being made and you're not being made aware of them because of the place that the industry industry is at. And so I say all that to say though, like yeah, support the developers that you like, support the indie developers that you like and you look forward to their games and that you want to see more stuff from because none of this is promised.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep, story number five, another one like this. There's a report that two XKO and Marvel Snap Code of Demerge Demur Demiurge Studios is laying off staff. This comes from Diego Arguello at Game developer Embrace. Their own developer. Demir Studios has provided services for Riot Games to Xko and Blizzard's Hearthstone is reportedly laying off staff via LinkedIn. Six developers have posted about being reportedly affected by recent layoffs at the studio. The employees have roles across multiple departments including Quality assurance, production and UX/I design. Sadly, I've joined the ranks of job hunters, wrote ux/I artist Cassidy W. I got the news today that my position at Demiurge has been eliminated. I have only kind words for the entire team over there and I'm so grateful to have worked with such kind, amazing people who clearly care very much for their employees. Demiurge has been hiring new staff as recently as last week. Their extensive portfolio includes notable games like Mass Effect, Marvel, Snap Team Fight Tactics and more.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, same thing that we talked about in the last news story. I think the other thing I want to add to it too is that there are obviously so many companies that are being tight with their pockets because they don't want to give out funding. They don't. They're seeing shareholders pull back and they don't have as much money to throw, throw, throw around. Right? And I guess that makes sense in the systems that we exist under. That said, we talked about this yesterday as far as the games media side of it, of those people that do have money, that do have the means to then find the things that they love and that find the, find the companies that they care about in order to support them. Right? And that's where we see, you know, Giant Bomb or Digital Foundry or Game Informer be able to exist and do their thing and find new life through that. I would hope and I would want and I would urge you people with money to like if you have the means and you're seeing these companies close down, you're seeing the talent there, like partner up, like you know, show up to the occasion and help these people. I know that's like an impossible ask for me as somebody without as much money. Like, you need millions and millions of dollars to make like this happen. But, man, we're gonna lose out on so many studios and so many good workers if people aren't supporting the people that they love. And so that's all I gotta say.

[Tim Gettys]

Yep. Story number six. Fortnite leaks point to pet like companions, including a selection of dogs and a skateboarding turtle. This comes from Tom Phillips at ign Fortnite said to add pet like cosmetic companions to its battle Royale. A series of fresh leaks suggest initial designs include a range of dogs as well as. This little dude. Look at him.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Look at him.

[Tim Gettys]

He's a turtle on a skateboard. Data mine images sourced from yesterday's new Fortnite It's Mike's Dogs season show what looks to be a golden retriever, a pair of pugs, a robot dog based on the game's iconic cuddle team leader, and the aforementioned skateboard wielding aquatic reptile. Fortnite fans have been aware of plans by developer Epic Games to release Pet like Companions for some time, based on bits of evidence dug up and posted online from past data mines. But today is our first glimpse at the companions themselves.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Nice little palette cleanser for you.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

My. Here's my hot take. It is. It's not hot take. This is a take.

[Tim Gettys]

Take me.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

More games need little fellas that just hang out with you as you play. Yeah, more games just need a little. Little companion. Look. Cute companion. I like that. Yeah, that's my. That's the hot part of Star Wars Atlas.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Let me tell you about a game called Jet Force Gemini. You meet a little robot, you put him together, he flies around with you. His name's Floyd.

[Tim Gettys]

Shout out to Floyd.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Shout out Floyd. One of my favorite little guys. Dog meat from Fallout.

[Tim Gettys]

I want to list Navi.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Navi. I'm gonna find a shit list.

[Tim Gettys]

That is you in yellow version.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. Pikachu and yellow. Top 10. Top 10 little guy. Little guy companions. Yeah, we're gonna find that list.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We're gonna talk about it.

[Barrett Courtney]

I feel like Jesse Fatelli has probably written that probably a few times.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

If you're. If you're a writer that's listening right now. If you want to make that list, put it on Kotaku or whatever and then send it over to me and then we'll talk about.

[Tim Gettys]

Does Pauline count? Absolutely.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, yeah. In the new one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got. It's weird because it's Like a reverse. Usually I think the main character is human and the little guy is like a creature. But yeah, I guess in this case. Yeah, if you're playing as DK. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Chat brings this up. Does Mimir count?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, 100.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay. We're doing too much.

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Why Mimir? He just had his head cut off. If he still had his body, he'd be a full guy. And now that he doesn't have his.

[Barrett Courtney]

Body, what is he blessed?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We can't. I'm not calling me a little. That's a grown. That's a grown ass man. I'm not calling a grown ass man a little guy. That's a fucking grown ass man.

[Tim Gettys]

Little guys don't need to be little. That's all I'm saying.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Too old to be a little guy.

[Tim Gettys]

But it's his spirit.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No, I'm not calling the mirror a little guy. You know what I mean? To bring back the turtle on the skateboard. That's what I mean.

[Tim Gettys]

That's a. That's a big guy in my heart.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

The turtle on the skateboard.

[Tim Gettys]

Big deal.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I mean, it's a big deal, but like, that's a. Let's. That's a companion. I wanted a video game. I like mirrors. A companion. But that's a little guy right there. That's a little cute guy that, you know.

[Tim Gettys]

That is. That is a little guy. If I want to know about other little things. Bless. Where would I look?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

You go to our last news story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items he needs to know about. In order to call somebody a little guy, I feel like they have to be cute. Would you say Mimir is cute?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Barrett Courtney]

Sometimes.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Sometimes, yeah. Remember when he.

[Barrett Courtney]

Remember in Ragnarok when he uses the spoon to turn the page of the book he's reading?

[Tim Gettys]

That's a little guy energy.

[Barrett Courtney]

Right?

[Tim Gettys]

That's little guy energy.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's a little guy energy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Clank. I like Clank.

[Tim Gettys]

Clank's a little guy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

He's a little guy. Yeah. He's not that much littler than Ratchet, but he is littler.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So I like. I like Clank.

[Tim Gettys]

Baxter.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Sure. Yeah, Dexter. I guess if we're counting Clank, we got. But then, like, do we count Kazooie and Banjo?

[Tim Gettys]

He's a little guy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, he's like the same. Same size.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's Banjo. I don't think it's about size. I think it's about spirit.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

But like, Kazooie can carry Banjo on her back.

[Tim Gettys]

She's helpful.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's not a little guy.

[Tim Gettys]

Super world launches on August 15th on Steam. Early Access. Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater Fox Hunt mode launches this fall.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

What's the. Is it MGS4 where there's like a little robot guy that's like otacon?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Do we count that as a little guy?

[Barrett Courtney]

I mean self is a little guy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No, we've lost the plot. That's a grown ass man. Yeah, they all gonna piss me off. He's a little guy that's a grown ass man.

[Tim Gettys]

It's the spirit.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

His little robot might be a little guy. Little cute companion guy. He's always following me through the game.

[Tim Gettys]

Put it on to Paul Noble from Automaton. Wait, what?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

This is from Noble via Automaton. The website.

[Tim Gettys]

Got it. Nexon. Own studio Neople. It's like people with an N goes into indefinite strike.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Bless you.

[Tim Gettys]

Excuse me. Wow, I'm angry about this one. Over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased is a wild one.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

First Berserker Kazan team.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, is it that team? Oh, Neilpole. Yeah, listen, pay people what they're owed.

[Tim Gettys]

Like this is wild. You can't be changing shit like that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, don't.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't do that.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Give people money.

[Tim Gettys]

Give the people.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

A lot of companies going back on the words. A lot of. What was the one we were talking about for two weeks straight there? The. The. God, my memory is. So I talked about this every single day for two weeks. The big corporation and then the one that they acquired to make the Water Embracer. No chat. Crafting. Thank you. Subnautica. See, I was gonna say Subnautica, but for some reason I was thinking Abzu.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I had Abzu in the brain. It was Subnautica. The whole Subnautica 2 situation.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, yes.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Fucking companies stop being corrupt and immoral. When fucked up people figure it out, companies make more little guys and put them into video games.

[Tim Gettys]

We solved it everybody. And that's it for WE news.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Replace the corruption with little guys, little cute companions.

[Tim Gettys]

Arjun says I forgot my birthday tax turned 43 on July 28th. I forgot it was my birthday too until someone called me to wish me a birthday. Happy birthday. 43 on the 28th. Woohoo. I love you all KFBF's. Even my mom loves Nick's mustache, by the way. Oh, I am so unfortunately upset about that ending part, but happy birthday. Happy third birthday. Resolute says not topical. I'm a little behind on KF content, but it's important to note that the new red octane games Teams. The same team that made Yarg. Yarg is a rock band clone. That's a lot of the clone hero fans jump ship to. That's cool. Oh, that's faith there. George Corona says. No, we already read that. Omega Buster says, will someone send Mike the Nintendo World, the Nintendo wood blocks for his kid's birthday? Yeah, we might need to do that. Lucy and Orel says Limbo has one of the best little guys ever.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Who?

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, it's the character itself.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Was there a little guy that followed the Limbo kid? It's been. It's been years. It's been decades. Maybe the kid himself. You know, I'm not calling them. I do feel like there is a.

[Barrett Courtney]

Little guy in Limbo at one point.

[Tim Gettys]

A little black thing.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Following you.

[Barrett Courtney]

Or am I thinking about one of the other games that they made?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

It's been so long since I played Limbo.

[Tim Gettys]

Nothing. Because on Dev Strike, we talked about.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

There we go. Yeah. No, I don't think it counts if you're the main character. I'm talking about little companions. Little. Little cute companions that follow you around. The mind control worm keep you company. Yeah, the mind control worm.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, that's a little guy.

[Tim Gettys]

He's a little guy. Kebab says the little guy in God of War is atreus. Mainly in 2018 game.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, first of all, I give it to him.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Little guy. I think more of a little guy than you can have. More than one little guy. That's fair to bridge the spirits. Perfect example. Tons of little guys.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

A lot of little guys in Cana. But do they follow you consistently? Aren't they just all over the place?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but then you. Everyone. You have a. Groups of them.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

God, I want a sequel team member. Labs, where you at?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah. What do you think they're up to?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Hi, fi. Rush had 808 the cat.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Portland. Kevin says. Ms. News. The PS3 online store has been undergoing maintenance for the past three days. This was unannounced beforehand. It could mean that it shut down indefinitely. Oh, probably times. Come.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I'm sorry, I. If you had asked me, I would have told you that the PS3 store was already shut down.

[Barrett Courtney]

No, that was the Vita store, I think.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Mmm. But didn't they, like, threaten to shut down the PS3 and a lot of people got mad. A lot people got mad and then they took it back.

[Barrett Courtney]

So this time they just didn't announce it.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

So. Yeah, this time they do. They'll ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

[Tim Gettys]

God, Kebab says. Breaking we news, Corey Cudney, the gift gif clip goat has announced that the near thousand KF gifts he's made now have reached 2 billion views.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Shout out to Corey Cudney and shout out to all of you for using the gifts. The amount of times people completely unrelated to kind of funny, like friends, family, like friends, families, will like, text me, be like, what the. Why is Tim here? You know, and it's just me doing some inappropriate. It's Greg groping me. There's so many different gifts of Greg groping me.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's the one. It's like the. What is it?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

The. From behind. He doesn't have a shirt on.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but there's multiple from different days, different events.

[Barrett Courtney]

But that's the one.

[Tim Gettys]

That is. That is. That is the one.

[Barrett Courtney]

Also, I just wanted on the record, 62% of people in chat who have voted on Mimir say that he is a little guy.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

All right, I.

[Tim Gettys]

And I want to read this. You're wrong to everybody, because I want to let you know the type of.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, no.

[Tim Gettys]

That we have out there.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh, no.

[Tim Gettys]

All right. Username Tim hates Xbox.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Thank God it's not me this time. Oh, we did it.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim hates Xbox.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We did it.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim always throws wild shitty takes at Xbox when they are releasing a ton of great games. Huge roadmap. Dot, dot, dot, dot. And never talks about PlayStation canceling everything. No games, no roadmap. Lucky to even get one first party game a year. Kind of funny is such a joke.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Lucky to even. I was with him for a second until he said, lucky to get even one first party game a year. I feel like we get. I feel like we get two. Yeah. Death straining two just came out.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, it's just.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

And if you're not counting that Ghost of Yotei is about to come out.

[Tim Gettys]

Hey, find some joy. Play some games.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

That's lucky.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, this is hilarious. Yeah, well, I mean, what shitty takes do I have? I just told everyone you should play Ninja Gaiden 4.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's a shitty take. Bless her, Tim. Jesus Christ.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Golly, You're a loser. Loser.

[Tim Gettys]

I want you to think about that all weekend, okay?

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Machine next to you with the super chat blessing beat the allegations today. Congrats. Let's go. I was so scared. I was so scared to say that I didn't have an Xbox at my desk at work.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know if you all understand the fucking hilarious.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

The amount of stress that a small part of the community has given me regarding Xbox shit where I'M like, I don't know how to talk about Xbox anyway.

[Barrett Courtney]

If, if it helps any time that, you know, you have certain takes, like I, I can just come in and be the one to remind people that Microsoft is on the BDS list.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

And I heat away from you because that is also a thing that people should still keep in mind since they are publishing Ninja Gaiden 4.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Because like, and it's so, it's so funny because I shouldn't care about any of this, like, we shouldn't care about any of this console war shit at all. It's all childish shit. But I see enough threads, enough fucking tweets where I'm like, now it's in my brain as I'm talking about it, where, yeah, like, there are plenty of reasons why we should be hating on Microsoft and should be hating on Xbox, but even more so Microsoft as a business and how they operate and how they close down companies and how they fucked up Xbox and how they canceled games and partnerships and contraband and the John Romero game and like the hi Fi Rush came out and then they did all that. There's so much reasons for us to critique and talk about same and it's not me. The same. PlayStation Perfect. PlayStation also has Hella things that we should talk about and hella things to break down.

[Tim Gettys]

Right, but you're not talking about them right now. You just said all those mean Xbox things.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Yeah, I mean Xbox things just then. And I. That's why I had to bring up PlayStation. So people know that also, man, PlayStation, let me tell you, their live service is all over the place and they don't know what they're doing in that regard. Right. And then.

[Barrett Courtney]

Because we definitely didn't talk about that yesterday.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Well, I have to remind people every single time I gotta remind them that I try to critique all the companies, but I didn't watch the episode yesterday. Blessing. So I don't know so many companies that I try to critique them all, all in one sentence, in every single moment. And if I don't, then y' all get mad. Y' all get mad.

[Tim Gettys]

There's only one perfect one, and that's Nintendo.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

They've done nothing wrong. They are so pro consumer. They're like the best.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

I hope they raise the price more, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

Me too.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Any dollar.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, don't even tell us about what games are coming out. We don't need a roadmap. We just trust you. We love you, Cod. God.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Anyway, I can't, I can't believe you hate Xbox. Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

I hate Xbox and I hate PlayStation and I hate Nintendo the most. Those filthy little fucks.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Okay, no, no, that's too much.

[Tim Gettys]

We still want to work with these people.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We still try to.

[Tim Gettys]

It's Friday. We can't. We can't be honest. All right, we're about to do a spoiler cast for Donkey Kong Bonanza on an episode of the kind of funny games cast. Thank you so much for hanging out with us today. Thank you for hanging out with us this week. What a fun week of content it's been here. Kind of funny. And guess what? We're doing it all again next week. Not that this week's even over. We still have like four shows left today. How good are we to you? You know, we're so good. Mr. Tim hates Xbox.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

Think about that.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about that this weekend.

[Blessing Adioia Jr.]

We're so good.

[Tim Gettys]

Loser. Goodbye.